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title: Peng or what, where was the rock the princess sat on? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Four Skillful… · tree and pragmatics
description: Peng or what, where was the rock the princess sat on? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 768 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Four Skillful Brothers: the brothers save the princess and share the reward» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Four Skillful Brothers: the broth…

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Peng or what, where was the rock the princess sat on?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** princess · **What happens:** be, sit on · **To what, where:** rock

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 768 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Four Skillful Brothers: the brothers save the princess and share the reward» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/768-pg2591-part44/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:768-pg2591-part44:t11:1
# text = Peng or what, where was the rock the princess sat on?
1	Peng	Peng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the rock |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit on** | past | the princess | the rock *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rock=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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In a cave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:768-pg2591-part44:t11:o1:1
# text = In a cave
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
On a rock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:768-pg2591-part44:t11:o2:1
# text = On a rock
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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On a rocky island far out to sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:768-pg2591-part44:t11:o3:1
# text = On a rocky island far out to sea
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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In the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:768-pg2591-part44:t11:o4:1
# text = In the sea
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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